Apply the glyph filter and choose the normals array as the vector to orient by.
David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 21 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-881-4909 On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Vincent Leroy <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > > I am a new user of Paraview. I am facing a problem I cannot solve and I > have not found any relevant practice on the internet (guide user, mailing, > ...)... I want to visualise my mesh with normals specified *in my VTK > file* (and *NOT* the Normals Glyphs calculated by the software) (I have > these normals calculations in another code and I do not want to change > that). > > I am importing a mesh in Paraview from a VTK file. The VTK file contains > the following elements: > > > > # vtk DataFile Version 2.0 > hydrodynamic vtk mesh for paraview vizu > ASCII > DATASET POLYDATA > POINTS 458 float > x0 y0 z0 (points coordinates) > > ... ... ... > > ....... > > POLYGONS 465 2325 > > 4 n1 n2 n3 n4 (points IDs) > > 4 ... ... ... ... > > ...... > > CELL_DATA 465 > > NORMALS cell_normals float > > ... ... ... (normals coordinates) > > > > A 'cell_normals' array appears in 'Information'; I am able to color the > surface (each cell) of the mesh according to the values of the cell_normals > array (Magnitude, X, Y or Z) but nothing more. This gives me information on > the normals orientation but I have no visual on the vectors. > > How is it possible de visualise these normals (displayed as vectors) on > Paraview without calculating them with the software? What is the correct > pratice ? I need to know if they are well oriented, I also need some visual > on the mesh I am studying. > > > Thanks a lot, > > Best regards. > > -- > > Vincent > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > >
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